Trump's EPA Rollbacks Will Reverberate for 'Decades'
The agency’s repeal of a cornerstone of US climate rules is part of an aggressive deregulatory agenda whose effects on the environment will outlast the president.
US President Donald Trump is shrinking the Environmental Protection Agency more quickly and aggressively than ever before, culminating in this week's move to rescind the crucial "endangerment finding" underpinning key regulations of planet-warming pollution.
And unlike Trump's first term, the latest changes may be harder to reverse and result in long-lasting impacts on public health and the economy. Over the past year, the EPA has surpassed the staff and program cuts made during a similar period last time. It has also launched more pollution control rollbacks, with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proudly boasting about “the greatest day of deregulation our nation has seen.”